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Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)



On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:35:50AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > My first words were Cum-By-Ya
> 
>    Well, you just got blocked by millions of spam filters right there.
> :-)  I've always sung ``coom-by-ya''.
> 
>    And then again---my spell checker objected to `coom'; its first
> option was `cum'.  Go figure.  (Or, as my daughter says, go think.)
> 

I guess its the latin sneaking in again.  I say coom, but I spell cum.

Rather than 'go figure', what about 'coompuut'?

Procedo Cogito.

Doug.



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